Henry Fielding In Our Time
Title | Henry Fielding In Our Time PDF eBook |
Author | J. A. Downie |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2020-11-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1527561828 |
Henry Fielding In Our Time publishes many of the papers presented at the international conference held at the University of London 19-21 April 2007 to commemorate the tercentenary of his birth. Written by established scholars, including the acknowledged doyen of Fielding scholars, Martin C. Battestin of the University of Virginia, as well as younger scholars who successfully bring their recent research to bear on neglected areas of Fielding’s life and works, the essays offer a cross-section of current approaches to Fielding and his writings, from his ballad operas, poetry and political journalism , via Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones and Amelia—the novels for which he is still best known—to the social pamphlets written during his years at Bow Street as magistrate for Westminster and Middlesex. The collection should appeal both to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics and general readers interested in the eighteenth-century in general, and Fielding’s contribution to the emergence and development of the novel form in particular.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Title | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Fielding |
Publisher | |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780852291634 |
The History of Henry Fielding, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Title | The History of Henry Fielding, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | Wilbur Lucius Cross |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2017-12-23 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780484565516 |
Excerpt from The History of Henry Fielding, Vol. 1 To the Shame of all who write and speak our mother tongue, no one has yet brought together the works of a great master who, like Shakespeare, was careless of his fame. Nor have the biographers given more than casual attention to anything beyond what a very mediocre jour nalist once selected for them; all the rest, except such stray pieces as they happened to read in the most cursory manner, they have in turn consigned to the land of matters forgot because they knew nothing of them. I have at tempted to discover what these secondary works are, to fix their dates, and to give some account of them in connection with the half-known plays and the famous novels. These rejected publications have been a primary source of this biography; they have let light in upon the long-prevailing darkness. Their number, their scope, their character, make absurd the dissipated Fielding of tradition; they are a monument to Fielding's energy and earnestness, which once established time cannot remove. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Henry Fielding, the True Patriot: and the History of Our Times
Title | Henry Fielding, the True Patriot: and the History of Our Times PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Austin Locke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 |
ISBN |
Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Henry Fielding
Title | Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Henry Fielding PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Preston Wilson |
Publisher | Modern Language Association |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2015-12-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 160329225X |
The works of Henry Fielding, though written nearly three hundred years ago, retain their sense of comedy and innovation in the face of tradition, and they easily engage the twenty-first-century student with many aspects of eighteenth-century life: travel, inns, masquerades, political and religious factions, the '45, prisons and the legal system, gender ideals and realities, social class. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," discusses the available editions of Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, Shamela, Jonathan Wild, and Amelia; suggests useful critical and contextual works for teaching them; and recommends helpful audiovisual and electronic resources. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," demonstrate that many of the methods and models used for one novel--the romance tradition, Fielding's legal and journalistic writing, his techniques as a playwright, the ideas of Machiavelli--can be adapted to others.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Title | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Fielding |
Publisher | |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1820 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squireathough he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, "Tom Jones" is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
A Political Biography of Henry Fielding
Title | A Political Biography of Henry Fielding PDF eBook |
Author | J A Downie |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2015-10-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317314824 |
Existing accounts of Fielding's political ideas are insufficiently aware of the structure of politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, and of the ways in which Whig political ideology developed following the Revolution of 1688. This political biography explains and illustrates what 'being a Whig' meant to Fielding.